Thanks Planta's, you do me honour.
I'll proudly hold myself a realist any day, I'm always more comfortable with both feet on THIS planet, lol.

Joe,

"AS WELL AS to advise us all to stay alert, not alarmed (Abbott, today);"

What Stuntboy meant was:

"Be alarmed...and Stay alarmed...and certainly don't give any thought to the b-b-budget or the dud government"

plantagenet,

"Number of police + ASIO in the Sydney and Bris raids yesterday: 1,000+

Number of “terrorists” imprisoned following yesterdays raids: 1 (only 1)"

Number of media organisations helping to push the notion of "threat"?

All of 'em!

So let's see how it falls so far:
ban all religions
return to a white Australia policy
deport all Muslims
heighten security checks wherever people gather or travel
and hassle, hassle and humbug
and? and?
where was it we were going with all this?
freedom fries, and maybe Damascus and Tehran
Moscow under your starboard wing
Bush the Lesser would have been a good man to watch a baseball game with while sharing a long-neck or three
Tony, too
but what was the Cosmic Pigeon thinking when he gave them power?

Well said, Lego

Poirot,
The alleged "mastermind" is also, unsurprisingly an actor, what's the bet he's safely tucked up in an apartment in Beirut with two mobile phones, one to talk to the crazies in Fairfied and one with ASIO on speed dial.

Jay, if you are referring to al Bagdadi, is it not passing strange that his particular bunch of fanatics have yet to express support for the Palestinians, nor attack any Israeli targets. Could it be, as some French reports suggest, that his real name is Shimon Elliott and that he is linked to Mossad?

In this crazy world of shifting alliances and patently false flag operations, not to mention the ambitions of the deep state in all this, nothing surprises me any more.

Poirot and Halduell: spot on.

Peter: liked your preliminary classification, but you missed out Lego. Easy to ignore I suppose because he has yet to ever say anything worth a mention.